Rick “Wright” Senninger, executive producer, and host of the radio program Outside The Wire was arrested and booked at the St. John’s County Jail in St. Augustine, Florida on a Larceny charge Wednesday.

According to a Florida state attorney fraud investigator, Senninger also has bench warrants issued in Michigan for non payment of child support.

Senninger will be extradited to Michigan.

UPDATE

According to Marcia Lane of The St. Augustine Record,

A St. Augustine radio personality who has a nationally syndicated show is in the St. Johns County jail awaiting return to Michigan on a larceny charge, according to the St. Johns Sheriff’s Office.

Richard Senninger, 51, who is known on air as Rick Wright, anchors “Outside the Wire” on WFOY 1240 in St. Augustine. He wasn’t on the air Wednesday night and station owner Kristine Phillips said he “most definitely” isn’t going to be back on.

“He came to me two months ago with an impressive radio background. He was syndicated before and had sold that. He wanted to syndicate again, and he wondered if it could originate from WFOY,” Phillips said. The two made an arrangement, and Wright was renting time, not only out of the station but off a satellite.

Phillips said the St. Johns Sheriff’s Office told her of Wright’s arrest at his Palencia home around 1:45 p.m. and that he wouldn’t be on the air Wednesday.

She said Wright wasn’t going to be on the air anyway, because he had not paid his bills with her.

“Starting Monday I was really getting on him about getting up to date with his payments”, Phillips said, adding she had only known Wright a few months.

“I started getting calls from former colleagues who told me about not getting paid and his passing bad checks. So things had sort of come to a head with us,” she said, noting he owned her a “pretty substantial amount.” St. Johns County Sheriff’s spokesman Kevin Kelshaw said Senninger was picked up on a larceny by conversion charge out of Iosco County, Mich.

Gary Rapp, Iosco County prosecutor, confirmed the charge Wednesday saying the larceny by conversion charge was for “more than $1,000 and under $20,000.” Asked if Iosco County would be sending deputies to pick up Wright, Rapp said, “I would imagine that’s the intent.” Rapp said he didn’t know if there were any other bench warrants out on Wright since that would be a civil matter and his office only handles criminal cases.

Wright is being held at the local jail without bond and is expected to appear before a judge this morning.

Wright’s show is a conservative political broadcast that features several regular contributors.

According to info on the WFOY web site, Wright has 30 years broadcasting experience as a talk show host, TV executive producer, co-owner of several radio stations and founder of an advertising agency in central Florida. It says he “left his footprint hosting shows on stations in the Midwest and Florida.” I think people kind of liked Rick,” Phillips said, adding the show¹s time slot from 9 p.m. to midnight EST is late for AM listeners.

“It’s kind of an unusual time slot for AM, but he told me he had several affiliates on the West Coast. That would have been a 6-9 p.m. slot. That’s a probable time slot,” Phillips said.

Wright replaced The Jim Bohannon Show, which had an “extremely small but loyal following,” she said. Bohannon, she said, would be back.